Female Dominance (often shortened as FemDom or FemDomme) refers to a BDSM scene or relationship in which a female-identifying person is the dominant partner or top partner. The dominant female consensually takes charge of the submissive partner in these scenes or relationships. Their dominance gives them power over the submissive. This power may be psychological when it involves humiliating or ordering the submissive around. It can also be physical when it involves restraints or pain-giving instruments like whips.
A dominant female may choose to identify with different titles or honorifics including: Goddess, Dominatrix, Mistress, Master, Ma'am, Madame, Domme, Daddy, Queen, and Pro-Domme. These terms have different origins within the kink community as well as in the sex work industry.
While femdom relationships and scenes can include the entire breadth of fetishes and kinks out there, certain kinks (like bondage, ballbusting, CFNM, humiliation, facesitting, forced feminization, forced chastity, forced orgasm, and pegging) tend to be common within this dynamic.
However, femdom relationships and scenes can also include non-sexual service activities like pedicures, back massages, foot massages and "chores" like car maintenance.
FemDom is a shortened form of the term Female Dominance. This shortened form has been used since at least 1986 when it described pornography featuring dominant females.
